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Use Of Waveform Lidar And Hyperspectral Sensors To Assess Selected Spatial And Structural Patterns Associated With Recent And Repeat Disturbance And The Abundance Of Sugar Maple (Acer Saccharum Marsh.) In A Temperate Mixed Hardwood And Conifer Forest., Jeanne E. Anderson, Mark J. Ducey, Andrew J. Fast, Mary E. Martin, Lucie C. Lepine, Marie-Louise Smith, Thomas D. Lee, Ralph O. Dubayah, Michelle A. Hofton, Peter Hyde, Birgit E. Peterson, J. Bryan Blair
Use Of Waveform Lidar And Hyperspectral Sensors To Assess Selected Spatial And Structural Patterns Associated With Recent And Repeat Disturbance And The Abundance Of Sugar Maple (Acer Saccharum Marsh.) In A Temperate Mixed Hardwood And Conifer Forest., Jeanne E. Anderson, Mark J. Ducey, Andrew J. Fast, Mary E. Martin, Lucie C. Lepine, Marie-Louise Smith, Thomas D. Lee, Ralph O. Dubayah, Michelle A. Hofton, Peter Hyde, Birgit E. Peterson, J. Bryan Blair
Natural Resources & the Environment
Abstract
Waveform lidar imagery was acquired on September 26, 1999 over the Bartlett Experimental Forest (BEF) in New Hampshire (USA) using NASA's Laser Vegetation Imaging Sensor (LVIS). This flight occurred 20 months after an ice storm damaged millions of hectares of forestland in northeastern North America. Lidar measurements of the amplitude and intensity of ground energy returns appeared to readily detect areas of moderate to severe ice storm damage associated with the worst damage. Southern through eastern aspects on side slopes were particularly susceptible to higher levels of damage, in large part overlapping tracts of forest that had suffered the …